Gotta shed the old skin

This project investigates the relationship I have with myself, and the gap between

the inner reality of my mind and the physical manifestations of my body.

Through a series of brief and playful explorations, I start at the surface of my

skin and look inward, probing the ways in which my body is a container and

boundary of my perceptions.

Thus I gain the momentum and the courage to then face the emotional core

of this project: difficult memories of when I used to hide and alienate myself in

extreme ways. Since then the situation has changed. But have I really changed?

What is still there, what is no more?

In an artificial reenactment of my past habits, I try to summon my past self in

visible form, acting it, attempting to feel that same discrepancy between myself

and my body, so to reach a possible integration of this dissociation.

A durational action, performed privately, with no witnesses but myself, as

performer and public. Video and texts record the effort of a body that has been

disjointed from the self and forgotten, the struggle of a mind running away from

its physicality and yet being dependent on it.

I revisit a memory so I can exorcise it and bring closure to it.